SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing SQL 64 47 61
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.64% 8.95% 5.80%
As % of the Programming Languages category 19.75% 28.14% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 34 39
10th Percentile £311 £354 £335
25th Percentile £412 £375 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £548 £578
90th Percentile £569 £673 £640
South West median daily rate £475 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -6.86% -5.12% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £25.36 -
25th Percentile - £25.50 £48.75
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -48.33% -8.70%
75th Percentile - £46.75 £56.25
90th Percentile - £57.40 -
South West median hourly rate £74.68 £27.13 £33.32
% change year-on-year +175.32% -18.59% -42.05%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 324 167 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 28.55% 31.81% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 91 131
10th Percentile £325 £325 £300
25th Percentile £402 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £439
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.45% -7.53%
75th Percentile £538 £572 £544
90th Percentile £595 £668 £638
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 43 58
10th Percentile £60.00 £61.25 £52.50
25th Percentile - £62.25 £56.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £68.75 £70.38
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.14% +5.20% -3.85%

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 31 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.69%) Apache
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 16 (25.00%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.75%) GCP
4 10 (15.63%) AWS
5 8 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (9.38%) Snowflake
7 4 (6.25%) GitHub
7 4 (6.25%) SaaS
8 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (1.56%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.56%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.81%) 5G
1 5 (7.81%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (6.25%) 4G
3 3 (4.69%) 2G
4 2 (3.13%) 3GPP
4 2 (3.13%) 5G NR
4 2 (3.13%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.13%) LTE
4 2 (3.13%) Microwave Backhaul
4 2 (3.13%) MPLS
4 2 (3.13%) VoLTE
4 2 (3.13%) Wireshark
5 1 (1.56%) DNS
5 1 (1.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.88%) Power BI
2 8 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (9.38%) BigQuery
4 5 (7.81%) Delta Lake
4 5 (7.81%) Star Schema
5 4 (6.25%) Big Data
5 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.25%) Tableau
6 3 (4.69%) Metadata
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) Power Query
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.25%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) DBeaver
4 1 (1.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.56%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (26.56%) Finance
2 16 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 9 (14.06%) Local Government
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Publishing
7 1 (1.56%) Billing
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Senior
2 14 (21.88%) Data Engineer
3 11 (17.19%) Analyst
4 9 (14.06%) Developer
5 7 (10.94%) Applications Support
5 7 (10.94%) Support Officer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Applications Support
7 5 (7.81%) Application Security Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) Security Analyst
7 5 (7.81%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Data Migration Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Analytics Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 3 (4.69%) GCP Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Senior Analytics Manager
9 3 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) REST
2 3 (4.69%) Kafka
3 2 (3.13%) JAX-RS
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 2 (3.13%) Pandas
3 2 (3.13%) PySpark
3 2 (3.13%) Spring
3 2 (3.13%) Spring Boot
3 2 (3.13%) Web Services
4 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.56%) JPA
4 1 (1.56%) Next.js
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.56%) Playwright
4 1 (1.56%) React
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.13%) IoT
4 2 (3.13%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.13%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Analytics
2 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.44%) Agile
5 14 (21.88%) ETL
6 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
7 12 (18.75%) Data Engineering
8 11 (17.19%) DevOps
9 10 (15.63%) Application Security
9 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
9 10 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (15.63%) Data Science
9 10 (15.63%) Data Security
10 9 (14.06%) AI
11 8 (12.50%) Validation
12 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
12 7 (10.94%) Data Protection
12 7 (10.94%) Migration
13 6 (9.38%) Change Management
13 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.06%) Python
2 6 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.13%) C
4 2 (3.13%) Go
4 2 (3.13%) R
4 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.69%) Data Quality
2 12 (18.75%) GDPR
3 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.56%) PERC
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 5 (7.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Ansible
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.06%) Databricks
3 7 (10.94%) Google
4 6 (9.38%) NEC
5 3 (4.69%) Oracle
6 2 (3.13%) BMC
6 2 (3.13%) Remedy
7 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.56%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.56%) Facebook
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) SAP